{{Short description|Chinese film director (born 1968)}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2023}} '''Tang Danian''' (唐大年 1968) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and sometime actor. He is one of the sixth generation directors.<ref>[http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/chapter/82008/54742 唐大年的幸福情人节] 2009</ref>

Tang is an alumnus of Beijing Film Academy (1989).<ref name=zhang>{{cite book|last1=Reynaud|first1=Bérenice|editor1-last=Zhang|editor1-first=Zhen|title=The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century|date=2007|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-9000-8|page=289|chapter=Zhang Yuan's imaginary cities and the theatricalization of the Chinese "Bastards"}}</ref> He started his work by collaborating on films such as ''Beijing Bastards'' and ''Beijing Bicycle''.<ref>Edward L. Davis. ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture''. 2004. p.&nbsp;804 "... of a young peasant leaving his mother and wife in the country while hoping for a better, more 'modern' life in Beijing. Tang also collaborated on the screenplay of Wang Xiaoshuai's award-winning ''Beijing Bicycle'' ("Shiqisui de danche", 2000)."</ref>

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